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Decided to install a visualbox on my windows machine and installed ubunto. Than I had the issue again when i installed jquery I noticed i needed make g++ - C++ build essential. I installed it and reinstalled jquery and then the make test also worked. However i also installed nvm and use node0.9.2. So now make test works - and all tests evalutes to green ; ) Thanks saved me a lot time.

Thanks Don - and thank you for your book. Yes that would solve the problem - however I am also developing an other application that needs more of jquery. But the link can help others I hope. Btw maybe you should point to sitepoint forums from the books site. I had to write to books@sitepoint.com and was directed to this forum. I would have saved me a lot of pain and efford : )

garyklinecc, I can't locate the post even after searching my entire history. I will check with the admins to see what has happened to it. In the meantime if you post what issues you're having I'm happy to look at it afresh.

Between these errors (Python is required?), and the use of Mocha to do test-driven development (requiring "make" to be available), I'm wasting my time using Windows as a node.js development environment. Unfortunately, its the only platform I currently have.

I'm debating whether to continue forward with the book in a Windows environment (and simply ignore/work around the code that fails (eg Mocha and jQuery), or just wait until I repurpose an older machine with Linux. Apparently the book's code was written on a Linux or Mac.

I like how the book explains each section of code, and I am excited to start using node.js for a particular project of mine. I really do want to finish the book, and will probably just work around the features that give me difficulties.